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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' Twyla Tharp
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown? Yotam Ottolenghi
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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. Thucydides
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. Timothy Noah
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do. Zadie Smith
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. David Byrne
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Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break! Brooke Burke
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language. Natasha Trethewey
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Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. Ninette de Valois
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That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it. Steve McNamara
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That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that.
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We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.
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The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.
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We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.
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Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
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I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.
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We aren't in a position to be able to comment,
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We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open. Tyrone Willingham
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We are in the strongest position that we have ever been. Eric Schmidt
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I think she could have an MVP season. She is in a position where all she has to do is go out and play. She doesn't have to be the leader.
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It does not preclude us from taking a look at the quarterback position in the draft.
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We'll probably keep saying all that to ourselves, but it sure doesn't make this feel much better.
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Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?
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In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.
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I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.
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It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.
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We're not saying we're a sequel. No, no, no. Kevin Smith
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We're not saying a whole lot right now.
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We are saying we won't look into the provenance.
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On Saturday, you were saying that there's so many things you thought about ... about us, but you haven't shared them with me. Why can't you share them to me on the phone?
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I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest. Arsene Wenger
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I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
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One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.
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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. Bill Bradley
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs, Roy Oswalt
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The '98 team was probably the most disappointing. Craig Biggio
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The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,
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That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.